earlyorning light the bay can look so pure and pristine, t that's deceiving. know that like most of america's terways, chesapeake bay is in trouble despityears of trying to save it, anthat worries me. i wanted firsthand look, and so i head out on the water witharry simns, a waterman who's been commercially shing the bafor 60 years. >> in its ak time, if you drained the bay, the crabsnd the fi and oysters and everytng would probably be ten foot deep on the botm all over the whole bay. >>mith: over the past several decades, sim has watched the good times of bounful harvests slipway. about like your home wers re. >> yeah. yeah. >> smith: and what is e chesapeake bay liktoday for a termen? >> the only thinthat we have in abuance that we had back th was the striped bass, the rockfish. otr than that, everything else is dinished. two million bushel a yea now, we catch 0,000 bushel. i ver, ever dreamed that i wouldn be catching shad anymore, i wouldt be catching yellow perch anymorei wouldn't be catching tarpon anyre. i never, ever dreamed th that would comeo an end. >> smith: simns to me to the old